He is notorious for his film trilogy, made up of Deus e o Diabo na Terra do Sol ( 1964 )-perhaps his most acclaimed movie, nominated for the Golden Palm -, Terra em Transe ( 1967 ) and O Dragão da Maldade Contra o Santo Guerreiro ( 1969 ), award-winning for Best Director at Cannes.

* 1990 – Iran Contra Affair: John Poindexter is found guilty of five charges for his part in the scandal ( the conviction is later reversed on appeal ).

It disclosed a " distinct pattern " of abuses by the contras, including: " attacks on purely civilian targets resulting in the killing of unarmed men, woman, children and the elderly ; – premeditated acts of brutality including rapes, beatings, mutilations and torture ; – and individual and mass kidnappings of civilians for the purpose of forced recruitment into the Contra forces and the creation of a hostage refugee population in Honduras ; – assaults on economic and social targets such as farms, cooperatives and on vehicles carrying volunteer coffee harvesters ; – intimidation of civilians who participate or cooperate in government or community programs such as distribution of subsidized food products, education and local self-defense militias ; – and kidnapping, intimidation, and even murder of religious leaders who support the government, including priests and clergy-trained lay pastors.

Contra Terror in Nicaragua: Report of a Fact-Finding Mission: September 1984 – January 1985.

Category: Iran – Contra affair

* 1932 – Enrique Bermúdez, Nicaraguan Contra leader ( d. 1991 )

The Iran – Contra affair (, ), also referred to as Irangate, Contragate or the Iran-Contra scandal, was a political scandal in the United States that came to light in November 1986.

* 1986 – Iran-Contra Affair: National Security Council member Oliver North and his secretary start to shred documents implicating them in the sale of weapons to Iran and channeling the proceeds to help fund the Contra rebels in Nicaragua.

* 1986 – Iran Contra Affair: US Attorney General Edwin Meese announces that profits from covert weapons sales to Iran were illegally diverted to the anti-communist Contra rebels in Nicaragua.

Thomas Aquinas ( c. 1225 – 1274 ), wrote Summa Theologica and Summa Contra Gentiles which both present various versions of the Cosmological argument and Teleological argument, respectively.

* 1981 – Iran-Contra Affair: Ronald Reagan signs the top secret National Security Decision Directive 17 ( NSDD-17 ), giving the Central Intelligence Agency the authority to recruit and support Contra rebels in Nicaragua.

Category: Iran – Contra affair

The Richmond-San Rafael Bridge on Interstate 580 which connects Marin and Contra Costa counties, the San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge on Interstate 80 which connects Alameda and San Francisco counties, the Hayward-San Mateo Bridge on Highway 92 which connects Alameda and San Mateo counties and the Dumbarton Bridge on Highway 84 which connects Alameda and San Mateo counties.

** A federal grand jury indicts Caspar Weinberger for his role in covering up the Iran – Contra affair.

** President George H. W. Bush pardons six national security officials implicated in the Iran – Contra affair, including Caspar Weinberger.

** Iran – Contra affair: Alan Fiers agrees to plead guilty to two charges of having lied to the U. S. Congress.

* September 16 – Judge Gerhard Gesell of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia issues a ruling clearing Col. Oliver North of all charges brought against him in the Iran – Contra affair.

* November 3 – Iran – Contra affair: The Lebanese magazine Ash-Shiraa reports that the United States has been selling weapons to Iran in secret, in order to secure the release of 7 American hostages held by pro-Iranian groups in Lebanon.

* O Dragão da Maldade Contra o Santo Guerreiro, Glauber Rocha 1968

Within his works on history, criticism and literary production, he published La Poesia Catalana (" Catalan Poetry ") ( 1956 ), Poetes, Moriscos i Capellans (" Poets, Moorish and Cures ") ( 1962 ), Heretgies, Revoltes i Sermons (" Heresies, Revolts and Sermons ") ( 1968 ) and Literatura Catalana Contemporània (" Contemporary Catalan Literature ") ( 1972 ), in addition to three extensive prologues for the works of Joan Salvat-Papasseit ( 1962 ), Salvador Espriu ( 1963 ) and Josep Pla ( 1966 ), joined together in Contra el Noucentisme (" Against Noucentisme ") ( 1978 ).

< li > O Dragão da Maldade Contra o Santo Guerreiro (" Antonio das Mortes ," 1968 )

This change is effected by progressing the 1's down the set and progressing the 2's up ( also up the hall and down the hall ; see Contra Dance Form main article for full characterizations of the progression in the eight dance forms mentioned above ).

:* Contra Dance Links-calendars and further links for the world

Similarly, the Catholic Institute for International Relations ( CIIR, now known as " Progressio "), a human rights organization which identifies itself with liberation theology, had summarized Contra operating procedures in their 1987 human rights report: " The record of the contras in the field, as opposed to their official professions of democratic faith, is one of consistent and bloody abuse of human rights, of murder, torture, mutilation, rape, arson, destruction and kidnapping.

In Contra Celsum ( Book I, Chapter XLVII ) as Origen defends the Christian practice of baptism, he recounts Josephus ' reference to the baptisms performed by John the Baptist for the sake of purification.

Leftist critics usually argued that the United States itself created a " moral equivalence " when some of its actions, such as President Ronald Reagan's support for the Contra insurgency against the Sandinista government in Nicaragua, put it on the same level of immorality as the Soviet Union.

Defenders of the defeated government assert that Nicaraguans voted for the opposition due to the continuing U. S. economic embargo and potential Contra threat.

In turn, the Trustees of the Contra Costa Academy were granted a charter on April 13, 1855 for a College of California.

** Iran Contra Affair: John Poindexter is found guilty of 5 charges for his part in the scandal ; the convictions are later reversed on appeal.

His creations include such masterpieces as Sergei Prokofiev's Symphony-Concerto, Dmitri Shostakovich's two cello concertos, Benjamin Britten's Cello-Symphony ( which emphasizes, as its title suggests, the equal importance of soloist and orchestra ), Henri Dutilleux ' Tout un monde lointain, Witold Lutosławski's cello concerto, Dmitri Kabalevsky's two cello concertos, Aram Khachaturian's Concerto-Rhapsody, Arvo Pärt's Pro et Contra, Alfred Schnittke, André Jolivet and Krzysztof Penderecki second cello concertos, Sofia Gubaidulina's Canticles of the Sun, Luciano Berio's Ritorno degli Snovidenia, Leonard Bernstein's Three Meditations, James MacMillan's cello concerto and Olivier Messiaen's Concert à quatre ( a quadruple concerto for cello, piano, oboe, flute and orchestra ).

For example, Gama's voyage had made it clear that the east coast of Africa, the Contra Costa, was essential to Portuguese interests ; its ports provided fresh water, provisions, timber, and harbors for repairs, and served as a refuge where ships could wait out unfavorable weather.

The player's character has been embedded within a facility that controls vital systems, such as moving public transportation belts and weather control, for an Earth-settled planet called Contra.

* Briefing for the Contra Central Mentality, a booklet that provides an overview of the facility, the robots, the computer system, and the player character's responsibilities

* A letter from the Contra Central Lottery Commission Headquarters explaining that the player has been chosen to serve as Central Mentality for the next 500 years

The original settlement in what is now the downtown was initially called " Contra Costa " (" opposite shore ", the Spanish name for the lands on the east side of the Bay ) and was included in Contra Costa County before Alameda County was established on March 25, 1853.

This, for instance, is the general purport of the book, " Contra insulsam vulgi opinionem de grandine et tonitruis " ( Against the foolish belief of the common sort concerning hail and thunder ), written by Saint Agobard ( d. 841 ), Archbishop of Lyons ..

However, other accounts note that this group in Miami was also relieved at Somoza's death because the newly-founded Contra army, which consisted of many ex-members of Somoza's National Guard, would have to give the impression of having no relation to the old Somoza regime, for purposes of public relations and world opinion.

Contra is used where " signal " would be used for support.

Contra Costa County ( Spanish for " opposite coast ") is a primarily suburban county in the San Francisco Bay Area of the U. S. state of California.

In 365, he published the Contra Arianos vel Auxentium Mediolanensem liber, in connection with the controversy ; and also ( but perhaps at a somewhat earlier date ) the Contra Constantium Augustum liber, in which he pronounced that lately deceased emperor to have been the Antichrist, a rebel against God, " a tyrant whose sole object had been to make a gift to the devil of that world for which Christ had suffered.

The Contras became " a campesino movement with its own leadership " ( Luis Carrion ); they had " a large social base in the countryside " ( Orlando Nunez ); " the integration of thousands of peasants into the counterrevolutionary army " was provoked by " the policies, limitations and errors of Sandinismo " ( Alejandro Bendana ); " many landless peasants went to war " to avoid the state collectives, and Contra commanders " were small farmers, many of them without any ties to Somocismo, who had supplanted the former National Guard officers " ( Sergio Ramirez ).

There is also a large Dance Tent that features various group and partnered dance styles until the wee hours of the morning, including Contra Dancing, Swing Dancing, Square Dancing, and Zydeco Dancing.